Answer:Themes in Patrick White's short story "Five-Twenty" include:
Lack of fulfillment and a desperate, failing passion1
Aching attraction felt between couples, either requited or unrequited1
The unifying irony of the entire story is that Ella’s very goodness is the source of her own undoing2
Use of symbols such as traffic jams and accidents to foreshadow both the chance encounter and the man’s death2
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